Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Required Viewing for every citizen in the Free World. How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AnB8MuQ6DU

"If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise." Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media